instance method select_date

Returns a set of html select-tags (one for year, month, and day) pre-selected with the date. It’s possible to explicitly set the order of the tags using the :order option with an array of symbols :year, :month and :day in the desired order. If the array passed to the :order option does not contain all the three symbols, all tags will be hidden.

If anything is passed in the html_options hash it will be applied to every select tag in the set.

Examples

my_date = Time.now + 6.days

# Generates a date select that defaults to the date in my_date (six days after today).
select_date(my_date)

# Generates a date select that defaults to today (no specified date).
select_date()

# Generates a date select that defaults to the date in my_date (six days after today)
# with the fields ordered year, month, day rather than month, day, year.
select_date(my_date, :order => [:year, :month, :day])

# Generates a date select that discards the type of the field and defaults to the date in
# my_date (six days after today).
select_date(my_date, :discard_type => true)

# Generates a date select that defaults to the date in my_date,
# which has fields separated by '/'.
select_date(my_date, :date_separator => '/')

# Generates a date select that defaults to the datetime in my_date (six days after today)
# prefixed with 'payday' rather than 'date'.
select_date(my_date, :prefix => 'payday')

# Generates a date select with a custom prompt. Use <tt>:prompt => true</tt> for generic prompts.
select_date(my_date, :prompt => {:day => 'Choose day', :month => 'Choose month', :year => 'Choose year'})
select_date(my_date, :prompt => {:hour => true}) # generic prompt for hours
select_date(my_date, :prompt => true) # generic prompts for all